Shloka 36
Mind as Charioteer; Kṣetrajña, Tapas, and Dhyāna-Yoga
Adhyātma-Upadeśa
तस्माजउज्ञानेन शुद्धेन मुच्यते सर्वकिल्बिषै: । निश्चयको साक्षात् करनेवाले वृद्ध लोग कहते हैं कि "ज्ञान ही परम कल्याणका साधन है।” इसलिये परम शुद्ध ज्ञानके द्वारा ही मनुष्य सब पापोंसे छूट जाता है
tasmāj jñānena śuddhena mucyate sarva-kilbiṣaiḥ | niścayakaḥ sākṣāt kartṛṇo vṛddhāḥ prāhur yathā—jñānam eva parama-kalyāṇasya sādhanam iti || bīja-dharmas tv ahaṅkāraḥ prasavaś ca punaḥ punaḥ | bīja-prasava-dharmāṇi mahā-bhūtāni pañca vai ||
ヴァーユは語った。「ゆえに、清浄なる知によって人はあらゆる罪垢から解き放たれる。直接の確証を得た長老たちは宣言する—知こそが最高の善への唯一の手段である、と。我執の原理（アハンカーラ）は因として種子の性をもち、また幾度となく果へと変転する。同様に五大も因と果の両性を備え、音などの感官対象を生み出すがゆえに、『種子を宿すもの』と称される。」
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
Pure, discriminative knowledge is presented as the direct means to the highest good, because it removes all moral and spiritual defilements; ignorance-driven identification (ahaṅkāra) is the recurring seed of bondage.
Vāyudeva delivers a doctrinal instruction: he links ethical purification to liberating knowledge and then explains a Sāṅkhya-style causal chain in which ahaṅkāra and the five great elements function as both causes and effects, generating the field of sense-experience.